生命科學院 / 2006諾貝爾化學獎得主柯恩伯格談「遺傳訊息的表現」 / 科恩伯格教授演講風采
Roger Kornberg is a Professor in the Department of Structural Biology at Stanford University. In his doctoral research, he demonstrated the diffusional motions of lipids in membranes, termed flip-flop and lateral diffusion. He was a postdoctoral fellow and member of the scientific staff at the Laboratory of Molecular biology in Cambridge, England from 1972-5, where he discovered the nucleosome, the basic unit of DNA coiling in
chromosomes. He moved to his present position in 1978,where his research has focused on the mechanism and regulation of eukaryoticgene transcription.Kornberg has received many awards, including the 2001 Welch prize, highest award in chemistry in the United States, and the 2002 Leopold Mayer Prize, highest award in biomedical sciences of the French Academy of Sciences, and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (unshared, 2006). Kornberg’s closest collaborator has been his wife, Dr. Yahli Lorch. They have three children, Guy, Maya, and Gil.